Household Gods Madam Prescient

Raising the spirit of American radicalism

Jessa Crispin Small Worlds

The soul-deadening magic of tidying up

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Chris Lehmann The Shock of the Crazed 122 The hidden world of art brut

J. C. Hallman

Animal Magnetism Who Speaks for the Trees? 134

Astra Taylor Womb Up, America

Lucy Ellmann The Higher Happiness

George Scialabba

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The Real America

Black Elk, Woke

On the remaking of a Native American prophet

Ann Neumann

Story

Dazzle Speaks with the Dead

Scott Bradfield

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Muzak of the Spheres

Poems

Kirk Franklin Has to Be in Every Rap Song from Now On

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Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib Incendiary Art: The Body 67

Patricia Smith Ode to Lithium #419: Perfect

Shira Erlichman Long division at the dinner table

francine j. harris Nothing Wrong with a Maple

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Matt Hart Song

Charif Shanahan

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Photographic

Afronauts

Cristina de Middel

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Exhibit A

Atlas Smudged

Danielle Chenette

Bafflomathy

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